U+0CBC "಼" Kannada Sign Nukta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
಼
U+0CBC "಼" Kannada Sign Nukta is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to modify the sound of the consonant it follows. Its primary function is to represent borrowed or non-native phonemes, particularly from Persian, Arabic, and English, by altering the standard Kannada consonant to produce sounds like the voiced aspirates or foreign fricatives. This nukta character is placed below the base consonant, and when combined, it enables the accurate transcription of words such as "಼಼಼" (for "za") or "಼಼಼" (for "fa"), thereby expanding the script's phonetic range to accommodate loanwords in modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CBC |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Kannada Sign Nukta |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Nukta |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CBC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cbc |